John Jamiel
Office Phone: 718.390.3261
Email: jjamiel@wagner.edu
Office: Main Hall Room 10
Education: B.A., William Paterson College; M.F.A., Brooklyn College
Biography: Prof. Jamiel is entering his seventeenth year as Head of the Acting Program at Wagner College. He has directed and acted for the past 30 years in New York City, regionally and abroad.
Directing credits include: Three Sisters at The Guilford School of Acting Conservatoire in Surrey, England, Arms and the Man, Raised in Captivity, In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes, Icarus’s Mother, Bash, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Normal Heart, A Grand Night for Singing, Ascension Day and The Man Who Came to Dinner at Wagner College.
Acting credits include: Voynitsky in The Wood Demon at the American Theatre of Actors, Dostoyevsky in Circus at Theatre for the New City and Sganarelle at The Van Dam Theatre. Regionally he was a Guest Artist and appeared as Sheridan Whiteside at Buffalo Studio Arena Theatre School in The Man Who Came to Dinner. At Wagner he appeared as Hysterium in Forum, Jacques in As You Like It and Saunders in Lend Me a Tenor.
He has trained with Slava Dolgatchev of the Moscow Art Theatre, Uta Hagen, Austin Pendelton, F. Murray Abraham and Christine Lavren and holds his MFA degree from Brooklyn College.
Courses Taught: Acting I, II, III, IV, IV, V.